Alerts

2010

New York, February 8, 2010—The Committee to Protect
Journalists is outraged by a second prison sentence given to Hanevy Ould Dehah,
editor of the online publication Taqadoumy, and calls on the Mauritanian judiciary to reverse the verdict
on appeal.

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New York, February 5, 2010—Muhammad
al-Maqaleh, editor of the opposition Yemeni Socialist Party’s news Web site Aleshteraki,
who was detained in September has finally appeared in government custody. He is
being held without charges, local news outlets reported, and alleges that he has
been tortured.

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New York, February 4, 2010—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns a court order issued on Monday that banned all Kazakh media and printing houses from publishing “any information that discredits the honor and dignity” of President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s son-in-law, a high-ranking energy executive.

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New York, February 4, 2009—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns an Egyptian criminal court’s decision on Tuesday to sentence a journalist to one year in prison and a fine of 60,000 Egyptian pounds (US$10,500) on criminal charges filed by another journalist who is also a member of parliament.

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New York, February 4,2010—An Iraqi
government plan
to impose restrictive rules on broadcast news media represents an alarming
return to authoritarianism, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
CPJ denounced the rules and called on Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his
government to abandon their repressive plan.

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New York, February 3, 2010—The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on judges in Tajikistan’s capital, Dushanbe, to drop their defamation lawsuits against three popular independent weeklies for damage amounts that would bankrupt them.

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New York, February 3, 2010—The Committee to
Protect Journalists called for Saudi-run satellite operator Arabsat to return
to air the Iranian-owned Arabic-language satellite channel Al-Alam, which
stopped broadcasting January 27 without prior notice, according to international
news reports.

In a statement published on its
Web site, Al-Alam said that “Arabsat, in continuation of its censorship
policies and as a move to confront the news networks which reflect the
realities of the world, has today once again cut broadcasting of the Al-Alam
network.” Al-Alam was previously taken off the air by
both Arabsat and the Cairo-based satellite service provider Nilesat in
November. Both cited a contractual breach without elaborating further.

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New York, February 3, 2010—An opinion column in
Uganda’s leading independent newspaper suggesting parallels between President Yoweri Museveni and
former Philippine leader Ferdinand
Marcos led to criminal libel charges against two journalists today, according to local
media reports.

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New York, February 3, 2010—Iranian
authorities are now holding at least 47 journalists in prison, more than any
single country has imprisoned since 1996, according to a new survey by the
Committee to Protect Journalists.

While many of the detainees were arrested in the aftermath of the disputed June presidential election, CPJ’s survey found that authorities are continuing to wage an aggressive campaign to round up independent and opposition journalists. At least 26 journalists have been jailed in the last two months alone, CPJ found.

New York, February 1, 2010—Jorge Ochoa Martínez, a Mexican editor and publisher in Guerrero state, died late Friday after being shot in the face, according to local press reports. Mexican authorities must put an end to the cycle of impunity in attacks on the press by ensuring those responsible for Ochoa’s murder are brought to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.